Not so moronic when you consider all the free publicity it generated.

You are correct. Every time he says something like this, it seems every news outlet picks it up. They just had a short blurb on the radio and evening news about it yesterday.

The ironic thing is there is a bush cargo transportation company in Alaska called Ryan Air. (http://ats.texrus.com/) A couple of folks called in to a local morning talk show to complain about the "local" company making such statements, when it had nothing to do with them.